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Augustus Woodward's plan for the city following 1805 fire. Detroit, settled in 1701, is one of the oldest cities in the Midwest. It experienced a disastrous fire in 1805 which nearly destroyed the city, leaving little present-day evidence of old Detroit save a few east-side streets named for early French settlers, their ancestors, and some pear trees which were believed to have been planted by ...
The Detroit Historical Museum is located at 5401 Woodward Avenue in the city's Cultural Center Historic District in Midtown Detroit. It chronicles the history of the Detroit area from cobblestone streets, 19th century stores, the auto assembly line, toy trains, fur trading from the 18th century, and much more.
On Detroit’s west side, there’s a little house that transformed American culture and the music world at large. And so the Motown Museum has become a go-to destination for visitors from across ...
The old Detroit Museum of Art stood at 704 E. Jefferson Ave. The building opened in 1888. Support for the museum came from Detroit philanthropists such as Charles Lang Freer, and the auto barons: art and funds were donated by the Dodges, the Firestones and the Fords, especially Edsel Ford and his wife Eleanor, and subsequently their children.
Explore metro Detroit’s historic gems: Upcoming home tours highlight architectural treasures in Detroit, Birmingham, and Milford.
Conceived in 1887, New Birmingham was the brainchild of Anderson Blevins, a sewing machine salesman originally from Alabama.Traveling through east Texas, he became aware of copious deposits of iron ore in the area of Rusk, Texas, and having familiarity with Birmingham in his home state, was struck with the possibility of a similar industrial mecca in east Texas. [1]
For the first time in the Detroit Historical Museum's nearly 100-year history, a father and a son are being featured in two separate but adjacent exhibits.
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 704 people, 283 households, and 192 families residing in the town.. As of the census [3] of 2000, there were 776 people, 315 households, and 217 families residing in the town.